In classic InformationRetrieval systems a relevant document will not be retrieved in response to a query if the document and query representations do not share at least one term. T...
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) was originally defined to represent Web content, but it is increasingly used to define languages, such as XPL, that are used for coding execut...
Brain processes responsible for understanding language are approximated by spreading activation in semantic networks, providing enhanced representations that involve concepts not ...
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...